"Atlantaan lähtiessä päätin, että en perkele puhu koko matkalla englannin sanaa – suomella on pärjättävä."
When I traveled to Atlanta I decided that there is no fucking way that I'm gonna talk a word in English – I'm gonna survive with Finnish.

I find something horribly repulsive about ASMR. It is distinctly feminine in an almost perverse way, like a bastardization or pastiche of motherhood. To speak frankly, these videos only give me the urge to beat these women.

so, when you see women acting "distinctly feminine" you have the urge to beat them ..... ?

The success of Amélie has been much sweeter for Kassovitz. He has become a household face rather than just a household name. There he was at Cannes in May this year, working on the festival jury, when some nice people from Lancme approached him about their scent Miracle. "I thought they wanted me to work as a director on a commercial. I didn't imagine for a second that they want to me to be their new image. If they'd asked me to do that even two years ago I would have refused. But it was the right time." And then Kassovitz allows himself a little puff of fragrant PR-speak. "When a young man becomes a man it is a miracle. Indeed, I have become a man, I got married, I became a father. So I said yes to Miracle."

still wondering how does this turn into a cult, like what was the turning point?

The guiding philosophies of groups like this tend to emphasize sacrifice, and when the leader starts to make the development of the group about them and their ego, the sacrifices made by the followers wind up benefiting the leader, and so the dynamic becomes predatory. In the second video you posted, Cohen speaks about how, prior to "creation", "God" typifies a kind of self-love, and he even uses the term "narcissism" to describe the "Creator". This analogy is all meant to demonstrate the "purpose in life", so it speaks volumes about how Cohen views his purpose as the leader of the group. When "narcissism" defines the purpose in any measure, then the group is liable to become predatory in that it winds up serving the leader above all. Even tiny philosophical implications have snowball effects when they are put into practice.

An effective leader must place their followers before themselves.

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